Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Liam Neeson

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their public monuments or from their domestic relics. Archaeology is to social nature what comparative anatomy is to organized nature. A mosaic reveals an entire society, just as a skeleton of an ichthyosaur suggests an entire creation. Everything is deducible, everything is linked. The cause allows one to guess the effect, just as each effect allows one to reconstruct a cause. The scientist can resuscitate in this manner even the warts of ancient times. From this comes without doubt the prodigious interest that an architectural description can inspire when the writer's fantasy is faithful to its basic elements. Cannot each person reattach it to its past by rigorous deductions? And as for man, does not the past singularly resemble the future? Tell him what was and is this not almost always the same thing as telling him what will be?

Honore de Balzac, The Search for

Beauty is a bit of a bore.

William Somerset Maugham

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.

H. Powers

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

Charlie Sheen

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

Martin Fleischmann

You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire? To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?

Aaron Weiss

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

Anatoly Karpov

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

Amy Sedaris

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

Bill Cosby

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Anon., "North DeKalb Kiwanis Clu